Example sentences of "[art] [adv] i [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The more I hear about him , the less I like him , ’ she admitted . |
| 2 | The more I became involved in the executive work of CBC the less I liked it , but the more I worked with Ira Dilworth the more I liked him . |
| 3 | I suppose that in some recess of his mind he was recalling the old cliché about honours being handed out like lollipops , but the more I look at the sentence the less I understand what he was on about or why it was considered worthy of preserving in print . |
| 4 | He takes it out into the so I put it out |
| 5 | ‘ The more champagne I drank the better I understood his strong Scottish accent . |
| 6 | The sooner I get him out of the hands of that teenage vixen , the happier I shall be ! ’ |
| 7 | The sooner I get you to my grandmother 's side , the sooner this ends . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I will , when I get home , ’ Kate replied , ‘ and the sooner I do it , the better . ’ |
| 9 | I knew it had to be answered , but I carne to the conclusion that the longer I left it , the better . |
| 10 | I knew it was n't going to be easy , as it was so very much his world , but I realized I must do it soon , because the longer I delayed , the longer I felt I would go on doing so — like facing up to the ashes . |
| 11 | It 's like … well , the longer I leave it , the less it will hurt when I finally face it . |
| 12 | I shall go even further : my freedom will be so much the greater and more meaningful the more narrowly I limit my field of action and the more I surround myself with obstacles . |
| 13 | ‘ In fact , the more I talked to him the more I felt he was not being detached about what he was saying and certainly not professional . ’ |
| 14 | The clearer the outline of my skeleton became , the more I felt my true self to be emerging , like a nude statue being gradually hewn from some amorphous block of stone . |
| 15 | ‘ The bigger the game the more I enjoyed it , ’ he said . |
| 16 | The closer I get to completion the more I dread it , he wrote . |
| 17 | The more he thought , the more I knew I had him on toast . |
| 18 | The more I said it , the more I believed it . |
| 19 | I confess that the more I consider this alternative , the more I dislike it . |
| 20 | The more I think about it , the more I persuade myself that I 've misjudged little Selina . |
| 21 | The more I said it , the more I believed it . |
| 22 | And the more I conduct it , the more it comes to seem the richest of all his operas . ’ |
| 23 | The more I see of you , the more I esteem you . |
| 24 | But the more I know them , the more I ask myself the question , ‘ What is the purpose ? ’ |
| 25 | But the more I know them , the more I ask myself the question , ‘ What is the purpose ? ’ |
| 26 | I can tell you that the further down the social scale we went the brighter and sweeter and richer the orange squash , and the more I loved it . |
| 27 | The more I heard this set , the more I love it . |
| 28 | But against all my expectations , the longer he kept away , the more I found I could hack it . |
| 29 | ‘ I had noticed some time ago that the shoemaker had a beautiful daughter and the more I saw of her , the more I liked her . ’ |
| 30 | The more I became involved in the executive work of CBC the less I liked it , but the more I worked with Ira Dilworth the more I liked him . |